Suffragettes

SuffragettesCreated by: PICRYLDated: 1910

Suffragettes

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 1800s, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women.

Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted all women the right to vote. Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917; Britain, Germany, Poland in 1918; Austria and the Netherlands in 1919; and the United States in 1920.

Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood:

"The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena..."

7JCC/O/02/028Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, line of women in the street wearing sandwich boards, each with the name of a different religious suffrage society, led by a women bring a banner 'Religious L... more

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Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, Lydia Sexton, facing forward, standing next to a raised urn with her left hand resting on stone pedestal, wearing a bonnet and... more

7JCC/O/02/088.Photograph, modern reproduction, printed, paper, monochrome, studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst leaning against the back of a chair, three quarter length, right profile; printed below image 'Ab... more

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Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap.
Caption on cropped version of same ima... more

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Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of actress Julia Marlowe, hair loose, facing camera.
Research indicates uncropped version of this photograph was published as a postcard by the ... more

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Summary: Head-and-shoulder portrait of Helen Keller, facing right.
Published in Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1913, Nationa... more

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Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Rose Schneiderman, facing forward, wearing high-collared dress or blouse with large bow at neck.
Verso: "Please return to E... more

7JCC/O/02/068.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a group of men on a staircase in the process of removing a male protestor; on reverse printed caption 'Wild Scenes at the City Temple: A determined suffragi... more

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Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Judge Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch, facing camera, in high lace collar.
Judge and attorney Catherine McCulloch chaired the Legislative Co... more

7JCC/O/02/075.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pankhurst seated in a group of women on steps outside a house. The photograph is a modern reproduction of TWL.2009.02.131a, in which a number of th... more

7JCC/O/02/056.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, David Lloyd George in the witness box at Bow Street Magistrates' Court; manuscript inscription on reverse 'Mr Lloyd George in witness box in Bow Street Oct.... more

7JCC/O/02/045.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, three lines of women in pulling the carriage bearing Edith New and Mary Leigh, stuck on to paper; manuscript inscriptions round image 'The released prisoner... more

7JCC/O/02/125b.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Christabel Pankhurst surrounded by a crowd, about to get into a car; printed inscript... more

7JCC/O/02/044a.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Edith New and Mary Leigh each carrying a bunch of flowers, stepping down from a Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) carriage outside the Queen's Hall; ... more

7JCC/O/02/112.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst standing outside in front of a blanket suspended on a string, holding one hand in the air; manuscript inscription in ink on the front '... more

7JCC/O/02/125a.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Christabel Pankhurst surrounded by a crowd, about to get into a car; printed inscription on reverse 'Copyright Newspaper Illu... more

7JCC/O/02/059.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, general view of a crowded courtroom with Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst seated in the dock at Bow Street Magistrates' Court; manuscript inscripti... more

7JCC/O/02/108b.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst holding a Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) flag and waving from the window of a house; printed inscription on reverse 'Illustra... more

7JCC/O/02/008.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, suffragettes Daisy Solomon and Elspeth McClellan with a post boy, police and an official outside no.10 Downing Street, attempting to get themselves delivere... more

7JCC/O/02/011Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, view looking down the Embankment at a procession of members of the Church League for Women's Suffrage(CLWS), a male band and a large banner in front, groups ... more

Summary: Full-length studio portrait of Catherine Boyle, New Castle, Delaware, holding a tricolor suffrage flag and wearing a two-piece outfit with a locket or pocket watch pinned below her left shoulder, stand... more

7JCC/O/02/120.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst standing together in the street, in front of a crowd of men including several policemen; printed inscription on reverse 'T... more

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Summary: Informal photograph of Sybil Jane Moore (right) and two unidentified younger women (left), in street clothes, at curb with automobile. Another automobile appears parked cur... more

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Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Gertrude Hunter, facing slightly toward the left with head turned to camera, wearing eye glasses (pince-nez) and dress with sheer sleeves ... more

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Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, of Mary Brennan, facing right and looking toward camera, wearing a light-colored cotton dress or b... more

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Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mrs. Allen R. Fellows, facing forward, wearing eyeglasses and dress with large square collar.
Cropped version of the photog... more

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Summary: Half-length portrait of Mrs. David Terry, in lace dress.
Typed caption on duplicate image reads: "Mrs. David Terry of Little Rock, Arkansas is a member of t... more

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